Process Safety : : An Engineering Discipline / / Pol Hoorelbeke.

The author describes the history of industrial safety and the emergence of process safety as an engineering discipline in the 20th century. The book sheds light on the difference between: employers and workers.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Textbook
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The run-up to the Industrial Revolution
  • 3 Historical evolution of occupational health and safety in the nineteenth century
  • 4 Technological risks
  • 5 Process safety: an engineering discipline
  • 6 Process safety risk-based management
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Appendix I: SWIFT categories and questions
  • References
  • Index